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Guided missile frigate HMS Grafton (F80)

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Classification

Ship class:
Duke-class frigate (Type 23)
Type:
Frigate

Basic information

Namesake:
Duke of Grafton
Renaming:
  • CNS Almirante Lynch (FF07) (28.03.2007 — present)
Operator:
Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile)Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile) Royal NavyRoyal Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Status:
Active
Fate:
Transfer to Chilean Navy

Ship measurements

Displacement:
4,900 t
Length:
133 m
Beam:
16.1 m
Draft:
7.3 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
CODLAG (CODELAG)
Propulsion:
  • 2 * Rolls-Royce Spey SM1A gas turbines, 34,000 hp (25,000 kW)
  • 4 * Paxman Valenta 12CM diesel engines, (4 * 1510 KW / 2025 shp)
  • 2 * GEC electric motors (1.5 MW, 4,400 hp)
Speed:
28 knots
Range:
7,500 nmi (13,900 km; 8,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)

Personnel

Complement:
185

Combat assets

Boats & landing craft:
  • 2 * PAC 24 RIBs
Electronics:
  • UAF-1 ESM, or, UAT Mod 1
  • Seagnat
  • Type 182 towed torpedo decoy
  • Surface Ship Torpedo Defence
Armament:
  • 2 * ASuW Harpoon quad launchers
  • 32 * CAMM Sea Ceptor surface-to-air missiles
  • 1 * BAE 4.5-inch (113 mm) Mk 8 gun
  • 2 * Oerlikon 30 mm guns
  • 4 * Sting Ray torpedo tubes
  • Seagnat and DLF3 decoy launchers
Aircraft:
  • 1 * Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma or 1 * Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin

HMS Grafton is a Type 23 frigate formerly in service with the Royal Navy. She was the ninth vessel to bear the name, and is named after the Duke of Grafton. Ordered in January 1992, Grafton was laid down on 13 May 1993 by Yarrow Shipbuilders. The frigate was launched on 5 November 1994 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 29 May 1997 with the pennant number F80. In 2007 the ship was transferred to Chile as Almirante Lynch and, having undergone a significant upgrade from 2019 to 2020, remains in service with the Chilean Navy.

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